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Louisa

Louisa

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It should be called Dulwich Picture House - because most people in other areas know Dulwich and associate it with being a leafy beautiful location. The sooner the "East" is dropped from this area in every aspect the better. It confuses a lot of people anyway.


Louisa.

Louisa

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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> It should be called East Dulwich PH. I am always

> confused by the Dulwich Leisure Centre.


I'm sure I don't have to go down any particular 'route' as to why the 'east' was dropped from the leisure centre. However, if you look at the old signage below the roof I'm sure it says "Dulwich Public Baths"- so maybe it's just a reversion to the old days when East Dulwich as a new suburb didn't really have it's own identity as such and people from far and wide would have closer ties to just 'Dulwich'.


SJ it seems all this north east west south stuff confuses things. Anyhow, think what it would do for the property prices around here if we dropped the 'east' ;-)


Louisa.

Millhaven

Millhaven

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lol Drop the 'East' from East Dulwich? Let's drop the 'Village' from Dulwich Village while we are at it. Do the folk of West Dulwich similarly confused by their area name?


There has been talk by some of Deptford's residents of getting Deptford made part of Greenwich. The driving force for this idea is that the private homes in the area are falsely under-valued. This wasn't a issue when these people were buying of course, just now that they are selling.

Jah Lush

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I've lived in and around Dulwich all my life. It's all Dulwich to me.


Dulwich Picture House is what it should be and I don't see why people have a problem with not having the East in the title. It just doesn't have the right ring about it. The local football team isn't called East Dulwich Hamlet is it. Get a grip people.

Millhaven

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computedshorty Wrote:

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> If any title should be dropped it should be North

> Dulwich, there is no North Dulwich area, only the

> Railway Station.


Exactly. If you live in East Dulwich. Deal with it. I have lived in East Dulwich, Peckham and Herne Hill, if anyone doesn't want to live in any of those areas under their current names they can always eff off to somewhere else. I suspect it is mostly interlopers that want to change things.

maxxi

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Louisa Wrote:

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> It should be called Dulwich Picture House -

> because most people in other areas know Dulwich

> and associate it with being a leafy beautiful

> location. The sooner the "East" is dropped from

> this area in every aspect the better. It confuses

> a lot of people anyway.

>

> Louisa.



But Dulwich is a lot further south. Nearest station Sydenham Hill and just a little to the east of West Dulwich (as you'd expect). There's a Dulwich, a West Dulwich , a Dulwich Village - all to the south of here - and 'here' really should be West Nunhead or South Peckham.

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